windos 98 installaton problem

[prawinready]

hi all
my freind has 40 gb hardisk , intel celron 1.7 processor, while installing windows 98 it shows bluescreen and gives error VMM32.VXD not found and system restarts , i tried changing hardisks thiking that its virus in hardisk or badsectos problem but it shows the same problem , tried changing windows 98 cds and used orginal cds too , but the problem remains the same , windows xp and 2000 and 2003 are working fine if i install them . changed rams too and it did not work , wat is the problem for this , how can i overcome this , i like windows 98 a lot etc , plese help me to solve this problem.
thanks in advance

- praveen

 

[nweaver]

some newer computers are just NOT compatible with Win98/ME. The HP D220 microtower workstation is one example (spent 2 days trying).

 

[Aenslead]

Did you format all the hard drive before installing?

Once you've done that, copy all the (CD-rom unit):\Win98\ folder to your HDD, and run setup.exe from that same folder on your HDD-

 

[Kaspian]

try reformating the entire drive
then try the following

C:
mdwin98
cdwin98
copy"X":\win98\*.*

at the end just run setup.exe from the drive. by the way the "X" is what ever your cd rom drive is.........

good luck

 

[prawinready]

thanx friends for ur reply i all ready formatted repartioned n formatted again copied 98 to d drive and the problem remains the same is it the bios problem ? upgrading by bios flash will help ? NWEAVER did u solve the problem with hp microtower after trying for days or the problem remained as usual

- plz reply thanx in advance

 

[Aenslead]

No; WinXP/2k are far more sensitive to data corruption, and if they didn't fail install, then it must be an incompatibility problem.

I suggest you use Win2k.

 

[nweaver]

I never got 98 to install. It's a hardware incompatibility. That is a P4 2.66 craptasticlly cheap lab computer, so ymmv. I don't remembe the exact error, but I think it would bluescreen or the setup would lock long before it was ready.

I would give 2K a try, 98 is not nearly as nice.

 

[corkyg]

Go with W2K or XP.

vmm32.vxd

 

[sundart]

386 swp is important in 98 with swap file you cant run your 98 OS.that s why system made denied format